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Linsux and Winbloze - There is no decent operating system for the PC!
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by Aloone:
Me and my family purchased a PC about 2 months ago (not brill 1800MHz AMD 256MB RAM 40GB hard drive), it came with Microcock Winbolze Xpee already installed. It ran well for all of 3 days, then (for no apparent reason) it started to display stupid error messages when shut down (GUI error blah...), we hadn't even connected to the Internet.
When we did connect all was well for a week (apart from the previous problem) then for some reason we contracted the netsky virus, the latest update for our virus scanner fixed it (or it said it did but we still get messages saying that some non-existent file is infected.). Now every now and again it hangs even when it's not being used!
Someone at work said to me
savet:
quote:Oh by the way thanks for the offer Rio, how much would shiping cost from Indiana (US, I assume) to Bedford (UK)?, perhaps I might be better off asking the IT department at work for old modems.
I suppose the good thing about open source software is if it's bloatware you can cut the crap and recompile.
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It looks like it'll be around $9 for a large (padded) envelope. If your IT department has some, this would probably be the best bet. I'm curious how many corporate computers still require modems though. With VPN and SSH, there's not much reason to dial in to a computer when you can make a secure connection over the internet. And there's not much reason to dial out when a connection can be shared over the office network.
Also...just FYI, the "Designed for Windows $_" is only good for determining exactly how bloated of an OS it will run quickly. Unfortunately, they don't make PCs with stickers that say "Designed for Redhat Linux", or at least....I haven't seen any.
[ June 03, 2004: Message edited by: Rio ]
WMD:
quote:Originally posted by Aloone:
Sorry, WMD if you thought my last post was dumb, the last bit was a joke though, well in fact the whole post sucked. I often say silly things when I'm pissed off, I just was just a bit fed-up and disappointed.
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Hey, don't worry...that bomb part was damn funny. I still laugh about it. :D
quote:Oh by the way I've had a play around with Linux on a friend's computer, it looks pretty smart to me! The games look cool and they run reasonably fast too! (well it is a 2.5GHz 1GB RAM monster so I'm not going to get my hopes up too much, I mean it's nearly powerful enough to run Wronghorn!)
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Nvidia video cards have great Linux drivers downloadable from their website. ATI makes them too but theirs suck.
quote:Linux proberly wasn't keen on my computer it has a label on the case that says
solarflare:
quote:Originally posted by Aloone:
Me and my family purchased a PC about 2 months ago (not brill 1800MHz AMD 256MB RAM 40GB hard drive), it came with Microcock Winbolze Xpee already installed. It ran well for all of 3 days, then (for no apparent reason) it started to display stupid error messages when shut down (GUI error blah...), we hadn't even connected to the Internet.
When we did connect all was well for a week (apart from the previous problem) then for some reason we contracted the netsky virus, the latest update for our virus scanner fixed it (or it said it did but we still get messages saying that some non-existent file is infected.). Now every now and again it hangs even when it's not being used!
Someone at work said to me
emh:
quote:Originally posted by insomnia:
Lol
You're truly retarted.
Get a working linux system and stop acting like a stupid kid.
(or buy a PS2)
[ June 03, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]
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That was uncalled for.....
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